Quotes About Problem-solving

I did better than that. I called in a neighbour's kid who used to be able to solve Rubik's cube in seventeen seconds. He sat on a step and stared at it for over an hour before pronouncing it irrevocably stuck.

If it could not possibly be done, then obviously it had been done impossibly. The question was how?

Occam's razor. The simplest explanation is usually the correct one.

Mary and Joseph," he said, "turned a very embarrassing situation into one of the greatest coups in history. Clever, clever, clever!

The best way to eat the elephant standing in your path is to cut it up into little pieces.

I successfully chloroformed a hedgehog that was entangled in the tennis net and so managed to release it.

With method and logic one can accomplish anything!

Si se estudia un problema con orden y método, no hay dificultad alguna en resolverlo (Hércules Poirot)

If one approaches a problem with order and method there should be no difficulty in solving it—none whatever,' said Poirot severely.

Progress by elimination," said Sir Charles.

That would mean looking at the case from entirely different angle," I said. "One so often has to do that - about everything. Don't you think so?

You have the mark of a genius. You're highly intelligent. Also lazy. You don't make any effort to do work that doesn't appeal to you. But once something engages your interest, you apply yourself wholeheartedly to solving that problem. The trouble is that you rarely find an objective that seems worthy of your attention. In this postwar mess of a country, I would guess that you're having a hard time finding a practical application for your genius

In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word 'frustration'.

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded...

Abraham Maslow observed, "When the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

too often "managements 'navel gaze' and look for problems or solutions only within their own organization."86 A viable strategic plan needs to focus first on the external world to determine what to do before focusing inward on how to do it.

I joined Bloomberg Television as an anchor in 2011 after spending fourteen years on Wall Street. In many ways, the industries are similar: it's about relationship-building, trust, and problem solving.

I think if you have a big enough wallet you can solve anything but the key is to solve it with the least amount of expenditure.

If I'm having a really bad day, I always have a girlfriend - or even a guy friend - who I can call. They'll listen to me wallow for a minute and then be like, 'Okay, let's stop. Everything's great. Let's figure out how to fix whatever's bothering you.'

Basically, I'm a bit of a nerd and I've always wanted to solve a Rubik's Cube.

I'm wary of the word 'inventing,' because in the British psyche the word 'inventor' is immediately linked with 'mad'. For me, inventing is problem-solving.

When I look at Washington today, we need to bring us together. We need to solve problems, we need to rebuild our military so we can stand up to radical Islam, we need to get our economy growing much faster by throwing out the corrupt tax code and lowering the rates.

Finding nothing, she went back inside and MacGyvered a reflector using pieces of cardboard covered with tinfoil.

Researchers say that sketching helps extend the memory. That these throwaway scribblings "reduce the burden we experience" as we're trying to remember something or solve a problem.